Kohnen-Station
| Kohnen Station | |
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| Antarctic base | |
Kohnen Station
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 Kohnen Station
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| Coordinates: 75°00′07″S 0°04′00″E / 75.001882°S 0.066792°ECoordinates: 75°00′07″S 0°04′00″E / 75.001882°S 0.066792°E | |
| Country |
 Germany
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| Location in Antarctica |
Dronning Maud Land Antarctica |
| Administered by | Alfred Wegener Institute |
| Established | 11 January 2011 |
| Elevation | 2,892 m (9,488 ft) |
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| Type | Seasonal |
| Period | Summer |
| Status | Operational |
| Website | Kohnen Station AWI |
Kohnen-Station is a German summer-only polar research station in the Antarctic, able to accommodate up to 20 people. It is named after the geophysicist Heinz Kohnen (1938–1997), who was for a long time the head of logistics at the Alfred Wegener Institute.
The station opened on January 11, 2001, in Dronning Maud Land. The station is located at 75°00'S, 00°04'E, and 2892 m above sea level. It is located 757 km southeast of Neumayer-Station III, which lies on the Ekstrom Ice Shelf and provides logistics and administration for Kohnen-Station. Like the United Kingdom's Halley V station, the base is built on steel legs allowing the station to be jacked up as the height of the snow surface increases.
The station contains a radio room, a mess room, a kitchen, bathrooms, two bedrooms, a snow melter, a store, a workshop, and a power plant (100 kW). It is supplied by a convoy of 6 towing vehicles, which carry up to 20 tons each, and 17 sledges. The base is resupplied twice each year, with up to 6 sledge trains at a time. This traverse takes 9–14 days.
Kohnen station is the logistic base for the ice coring project in Dronning Maud Land, the European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica (EPICA). A core was also drilled at Kohnen station.
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